"The West is anxious about becoming another Africa, and it has dug deep moats in the hopes of preventing that, but it's too late: it has already become another Africa."

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Andre Naffis-Sahely

#Moats Quotes #Too Late Quotes #West Quotes

“If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.”
“The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”
“Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.”
“I also work with the regular orchestras in Munich, Germany and other similar orchestras.”
“A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.”

Source : In Observer 30 Dec. 1973
“The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer.”
“As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.”
“It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.”

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